remission
ree mi shuhn
- n an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
his cancer is in remission - n a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- n (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- n the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- The perfect remission was only temporaryas doctors well knew and Davis apparently never suspected.
- My system is in remission now.
- All the rest are still in remission including three who have been cancer free over five years.